Saint Ludo, Aletha, and Hagop Tchaparian

Never one for convention Kieran's first release under the Four Tet pseudonym was a 36 minute, 25 second single long single entitled 'Thirtysixtwentyfive'. Since then he has continued to release singles, EPs and LPs full of his complex electro/rock hybrid sound. His first album was released in 1999 and was entitled 'Dialogue', it received positive reviews from NME for its innovative sound.

He released a number of EPs and demos before 2003's 'Rounds' LP became Hebden's first appearance on the UK album charts. He toured his unique brand of folktronica around the country and into Europe with a live show often described as unpredictable and improvisational. The 2010 album 'There Is Love in You' is Four Tet's only album to break the UK album chart top 40 to date.

Despite a lack of commercial success, his critical acclaim and talent as a producer has allowed him the opportunity to work with some of the biggest artists in the industry. He has remixed works by Aphex Twin, Anti-Pop Consortium, Bonobo, The xx, Super Furry Animals, Foals, Black Sabbath and many more. Recently he has been working on exciting new collaborative projects with Burial and Thom Yorke. His latest solo album 'Beautiful Rewind' was released in 2013 and holds a MetaCritic score of 79/100 after receiving rave reviews from Spin, Fact and others.

Louis Rogé turned to making music after studying two years of a Communication Studies degree, releasing his first E.P at the age of 20 years old. His first run of singles and live performances got him championed by everyone from Busy P. to Erol Alkin and he flourished as a solo artist. An acclaimed live act in clubs, he also released a truly countless amount of singles and E.P’s, alongside several celebrated remixes released by everyone from Bugged Out to Counterfeet. He stayed at that level for a few years, but always had more time for collaboration than solo work, so in 2011, he teamed up with his manager Manu Barron to form their own record label, Bromance.

Since then, he’s truly come into his own, releasing records by Danny Brown and Theophilius London on the label and even co-producing two tracks on Kanye West’s “Yeezus” record in 2013. Brodinski remains one of the most in-demand producers of the moment, but he doesn’t let that interfere with a touring schedule that would put most rock bands to shame. He’s an artist hurtling towards his prime, and any fan of EDM in all its shapes and sizes would do well to check him out before he takes on the world. For that, he comes highly recommended.

Ok, I’ll admit it, “Post-Dubstep” sounds like what Nathan Barley (Charlie Brooker’s loathsome TV character) would call his laziest musical experiments. However, Mount Kimbie are a band that make a very good case for it being far more than just a hipster buzzword, to the extent where they make it some of the most intriguing, well-constructed ambient music to come from this side of the pond in a very long time. The duo came together at Southbank University, where Cornwall native Kai Campos met Dom Maker, a film student from Brighton, and soon after they met they were making music together in a tiny home studio in Peckham. Strange surroundings to create such visionary music, but it worked.

Working together, the duo took the bass heavy energy of dubstep and slowed it down, combining it with influences from electronica, hip hop production and sounds found and recorded by Campos and Maker themselves. In little over a year the duo signed a contract with Hotflush Recordings and released their first E.P in the form of February 2009’s “Maybes” a work that found critical acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork and XLR8R. The band were not finished however, and five months later released a follow up E.P titled “Sketch On Glass”, which also saw acclaim from all over the world.

However, all the acclaim for their E.P’s was nothing compared to their debut album “Crooks And Lovers”, which came out a year in July 2010. It got universally stellar reviews was hailed as one of the albums of the year by the NME and Drowned In Sound and was nominated for The Guardian newspaper’s coveted First Album Award in the same year. 2010 was also the year they started touring, ad unlike most electronic artists, the duo played the vast majority of their music on live instruments, forming a backing band that, at one point, saw a young James Blake in its ranks.

A lot of people seem to think that pure critical acclaim is a worthless currency, but it was that acclaim for both their albums and their live shows that got Mount Kimbie a record deal with legendary dance label Warp. Ever since then, the duo have remained one of the most consistently acclaimed artists around, both for the E.P’s that followed their debut album and for their follow up record “Cold Spring Fault Less Youth”. Truly, there are few other groups out their more deserving of the term “artists” than they are, and once they reach their prime, they’ll be quite an astonishing sound and sight. Highly recommended.